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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 58 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Performed by Adam Verner. |
| Summary |
In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra - a "dark Harry Potter on steroids with a hefty dose of metaphysics" (award-winning author Aliette de Bodard) - return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy. Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and 10-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave. A game of cat-and-mouse has begun. Claiming that she is a musical prodigy, Alyona insists she must play a complicated violin piece to find her brother. Confused and wary, Aspirin knows one thing: He wants her out of his apartment and his life. Yet every attempt to get rid of her is thwarted by an unusual protector: Her plush teddy bear that may just transform into a fearsome monster. Alyona tells Aspirin that if he would just allow her do her work, she'll leave him - and this world. He can then return to the shallow life he led before her. But as outside forces begin to coalesce, threatening to finally separate them, Aspirin makes a startling discovery about himself and this ethereal, eerie child. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Girls -- Psychic aspects -- Fiction.
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Fate and fatalism -- Fiction.
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Creation -- Fiction.
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Music -- Fiction.
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Musicians -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Fellowship -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Added Author |
Di︠a︡chenko, Serhiĭ, 1945- author.
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Hersey, Julia Meitov, translator.
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Verner, Adam, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780062988515 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0062988514 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12586468 |
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